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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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